Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 Released

Distrowatch reports that a port of Fedora Core 1 to the AMD64 architecture has been released: “The port of Fedora Core 1 to AMD64 is now available. Everyone is encouraged to download it and participate by either submitting bugs or submitting fixes. All bugs, requests for enhancements, and fixes should be submitted via Bugzilla. Please keep up to date via the Update methods.” Read the full announcement and the release notes for more information.

16 Comments

Fedora Core 1 has been out for AMD64 quite a while. This isn’t breaking news. I’ve already installed it, wrote a review on it and discarded it.

2004-03-06 2:30 am

I need to use a AMD Operon to sientific and intensive muneric operations. Is a critic system. Why to use Fedora? What distro to use? Comments?

2004-03-06 2:58 am

Fedora Core 1 has been out for AMD64 quite a while. This isn’t breaking news. I’ve already installed it, wrote a review on it and discarded it.

Incorrect. What has been available is a test version, this is the final version that has been released.

2004-03-06 3:07 am

Anyone know if JRE is included or available yet for AMD64/Linux?

@JoseCC: FreeBSD and NetBSD both have good AMD64 editions. Gentoo has an AMD64 edition, but it didn’t work to well last I checked. I haven’t tried the new 2004 edition yet though. SuSE has had an AMD64 edition for a while now, but it’s expensive. Mandrake and RedHat also have AMD64 editions.

Overall not a bad system. And it’s compiled and optimized for my AMD Athlon 64 3200. Better than Mandrake for AMD64 so far, and it feels a lot “friendlier” than Suse 9 for AMD64. I am really waiting for a 2.6 kernel based Core 2 for AMD64 but that won’t be for a couple of months. This will do for now I think. Either that or I try to install Gentoo 2004.0 again.

2004-03-06 5:57 am

will be fedora for sparc? anyone with some info about fedora/sparc????

BSDero

2004-03-06 10:46 pm

Is it possible for you to share opinion about advantages of using such a system for heavy numeric processing?

thanks

2004-03-07 9:06 am

You will get quite a bit of extra performance in scientific computing. How moch depends on your exact problematic. The main things that will benefit you are:

1. Fast memory access, which scales with the number of processors. Memory speed is usually the bottleneck in scientific applications.

2. 1MB Cache, this can make a lot of difference!

3. SSE2 instructions for floating point calculations, which where not present on previous Athlons.

4. Of course you will get the benefit of 64 bit instructions, if you are working in that kind of precision!

2004-03-07 5:47 pm

“4. Of course you will get the benefit of 64 bit instructions, if you are working in that kind of precision!”

You don’t need a 64-bit chip for that.

2004-03-08 12:18 pm

64bits helps if you’re doing a lot of long integer work. Also you can read in doubles in a single cycle (though the cache is more important in that respect). Another benefit of the AMD64 (one of the major ones for general purpose software) is it has a lot of extra registers which when utilised speed things up significantly – Epic games reported a 30% increase but I’d take that with a grain of salt.

Of the PC-style chips AMD64 is the best at the moment, better than Itanium. I’m personally more interested to see how it stacks up against G5’s

2004-03-08 2:07 pm

I want to ask does it support SATA hard drives? (I have Seagate 120 GB SATA)

2004-03-08 6:24 pm

Thanks for the comments, people. Bryan: I still would like to understand better why bigger cache is more important than being able to operate with double precision “by default”.